A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 20 wins & 73 nominations total
Joe Komara
- Party Dancer
- (as Joe Kamara)
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- TriviaWhile directing the love scene between Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, director Sir Sam Mendes, Winslet's then-husband, opted to watch the monitor from another room. Mendes admitted that directing his own wife in a sex scene was awkward, but added that directing sex scenes are always awkward. Winslet found this very uncomfortable. "Leo's my best friend, Sam's my husband, this is a bit weird!" However, DiCaprio found it very easy, as "we've done this a thousand times before", while filming Titanic (1997).
- GoofsWhen April shows Paris on the globe, the borders of the European countries are current. Most notably, the reunified Germany is visible, with the borders it did not have until 1990.
- Quotes
April Wheeler: Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying.
- Crazy creditsIn the end credits, there are six for songs where no individual is mentioned, just the group name. Of the six, five read "Performed by," followed by the name of the group. One, "Performed The King Cole Trio." incorrectly omits the adverb "by." It should be "Performed BY [my emphasis] The King Cole Trio."
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Summer Special 2008/09 (2008)
- SoundtracksThe Gypsy
Written by Billy Reid
Performed by The Ink Spots
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
Having been a 50s housewife with children at home and a husband who wanted to be anywhere but there, this movie was familiar territory. How many of us in those years simply packed our dreams away for the immediate necessity of putting food on the table and paying the mortgage? Di Caprio is outstanding, as is Winslet, she having to deal with an American accent along with the tearing emotions. I didn't see that anyone picked up on the final scene, of Kathy Bates and her husband, but to me that was the whole moral of the story - here is where you will end up if you give in to what you know is not right for you. Overall, though, well done - except women in the 50s did NOT wear hats to work!!
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Box office
- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,911,480
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $189,911
- Dec 28, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $75,981,180
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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